1837. GIVEN under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twentyeighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-ninth.

By the President:

JOHN FORSYTH,

Secretary of State.

ANDREW JACKSON.

The President

authorized by

1828, to suspend

duties on ves

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an act of Congress of the United States, of the

act 24th May, twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twentydiscriminatung eight, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act conantier any los cerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,' and to eign nation in equalise the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," it is such duties are provided, that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the levied on ves- President

whose ports no

eels of the

The President being satisfied that

ports of Tusca

of the United States, by the Government of any foreign

nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied, in the ports of the said nation, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported in the same, from the United States, or from any foreign country, the President is thereby authorized to issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within the United States, are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the United States, in the same, from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer :

AND WHEREAS, satisfactory evidence has lately been received auch duhet by me, from the Government of His Imperial and Royal Highare levied in the ness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, through an official communication of Baron Lederer, the Consul General of His Imperial and Royal Highness in the United States, under date of the 6th day of August, 1836, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of Tuscany, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported in the same, from the United States, or from any foreign country :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the dos, so far as re- United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that spects the ves the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within wuspended. the United States, are and shall be, suspended and discontinued,

so far as respects the vessels of the Grand Dukedom of Tuscany, 1837. and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the United States, in the same, from the said Grand Dukedom, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the 6th day of August, 1836, above mentioned, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer.

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of Washington, the first day of September, in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first.

By the President :

ANDREW JACKSON.

Secretary of State.

JOHN FORSYTH,

INDEX

TO THE ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-
FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

A.

Academy, Military, an act making appropriations for

Alliance, and Bon Homme Richard, prize money to officers and

crew of

38

American State Papers, appropriation for

57

Appleton, Abigail, an act for the relief of

86

Arkansas, State of, an act to extend the jurisdiction of the District

Court of the United States to

20

Army, appropriations for the support of

21

Arming and equipping volunteers and militia, appropriation for
Arts and sciences, an act in addition to the act to promote the pro-
gress of

24

79

86-
57

Atchafalaya Rail-road and Banking Company, an act granting the
right of way through the public lands of the United States
Auger, Mr., appropriation for bust of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth
APPROPRIATIONS:

hostilities

An act making appropriation for the suppression of Indian
An act making appropriations for the payment of the revo-
lutionary and other pensioners of the United States for 1837
An act making appropriations for the support of the army for
the year 1837, and for other purposes

For pay of the army, and subsistence, forage, clothing, camp and gar-
rison equipage and hospital furniture; medical department, sup-
plies furnished by quartermaster's department, barracks, quarters,
&c.; transportation, contingencies, national armories, (p. 22;) arm-
ament of fortifications, ordnance service, arsenals, elevating ma-
chines, blacksmith-shop, &c., at Watertown, (p. 23;) pay, &c.,
of Tennessee volunteers, one month's pay to volunteers and mili-
tia; arming and equipping, do.; paying claims, for do. during last
war, &c.-24.

An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy
of the United States for 1837

An act making appropriations for the naval service for the

year 1837

-

For pay and subsistence of officers and seamen, (p. 35;) pay of su-
perintendents, &c.; provisions, repairs of vessels, medicines, im-
provements, and repairs of navy yards, ordnance, miscellaneous
expenses, contingent expenses marine corps. (p. 36;) pay, subsist-
ence, clothing, fuel, &c., transportation of officers, launching, &c.,
ship Pennsylvania; building and equipping two sloops of war; also,
six vessels of war, &c.-38.

4

12

21

25

34

Appropriations-Continued.

An act making appropriations for the current expenses of the
Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations
with the various Indian tribes, for the year 1837

Salary of commissioner, clerks, superintendents, agents, interpreters,
gun and blacksmiths, presents, expenses of coal, steel, &c., (p. 38;)
provisions for Indians, necessary buildings at agencies, contingen-
cies, and for treaties with the tribes east of the Mississippi; Six Na-
tions and Senecas, of New York, (p. 39;) Ottawas, Wyandots, Mun-
sees, and Delawares; Christian Indians, Miamies, Eel Rivers, Potta-
watamies of Huron, and ditto of the Prairie, ditto of the Wabash,
ditto of Indiana; Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatamies; Win-
nebagoes, Menomonies, Sioux of Mississippi; Yancton and San-
tie Bands of ditto; Omahas, Sacs, Foxes, Ioways, Ottoes, and
Missourias; Kanzas, Osages, Kickapoos, Kaskaskias, and Peorias;
Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws; Shawnees and Senecas; Choc-
taws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Quapaws, Florida Indians, Pawnees,
Cherokees, Caddoes; removal and subsistence of Creeks, &c.

An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic
expenses of the Government, for the year 1837

This act makes the usual appropriations for the expenses of the civil
list; and, in addition thereto, appropriations are made for publica-
tion, &c., of the laws, arrearages due, survey of coast, diplomatic
agent to Texas, construction of Treasury and Patent Offices, inci.
dental expenses of Select Committee of Inquiry, paintings for the
rotundo of the Capitol, debates of the first Congress, and Register,
fire engine, &c., for War and Navy Departments, purchase of man-
uscripts of the late Mr. Madison,

son, &c.

B.

Baltimore, public warehouse at, appropriation for

Bank of the United States; resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to receive from said bank, under the Pennsylvania charter, payment for the stock of the United States in the late Bank of the United States

Banks, incorporation of, in the Territory of Wisconsin

Banking and Rail-road Company at Atchafalaya, an act granting said company the right of way through the public lands of the United States

Bean, Jonathan L., payment to

Page.

38

45

52

105

103

86

42

Beard, William C., late captain in the United States army, an act granting a pension to

87

Becker, John P., an act for the relief of
Belgian vessels, discriminating duties on Dutch and Belgian, and
their cargoes

103

26

Bon Homme Richard, officers and crew of, prize money to be dis

Branches of the Mint of the United States, established by act of Con

gress of 3d March, 1837

19

Breed, Ebenezer, an act for relief of

91

Briggs, Dr. John P., an act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy

to place his name on the pension list

101

Brig General Armstrong, payment of prize money to officers and

crew of

38

Brown, James and John, half-breeds of the Cherokee nation of Indians, an act for relief of

93